Florida’s Educators Lack Credibility - Top 3 Takeaways – March 31st, 2022 

Florida’s Educators Lack Credibility - Top 3 Takeaways – March 31st, 2022 

1. They’ve lost credibility and the benefit of the doubt they’ll do the right thing based on their own judgement. I’m talking about the education establishment; I’m talking about most teachers. As the rhetorical battle over Florida’s Parental Rights in Education legislation continues to be waged, we have the facts to consider. In yesterday’s Q&A I brought you the unfiltered law which obliterates the don’t say gay narrative. Now let’s take the next step in this conversation. Have public school educators demonstrated they’ll act in our children’s best interests or error on the side of their self-interests and political agendas? This isn’t a theoretical discussion. There are rock solid facts to consider. 78% of Florida’s public-school teachers are members of a union whose parent is the American Federation of Teachers. The teachers' unions repeatedly sued to keep classroom education closed in Florida all throughout the fall of 2020 – only ending the effort in January of 2021 after having lost a series of legal decisions over the course of six months. As my February 2021 analysis revealed... Kids have been far more likely to contract COVID-19 outside of schools than in them. In fact, children who were remote learning, as opposed to going to the classroom for education, contracted COVID-19 at a rate that was three times higher than those who were remote learning. This is on top of the fact that fewer than 20% of students who engaged in remote learning maintained the same level of learning as those in the classroom. So, you had Florida’s teachers sue for six months to attempt to provide lower quality education, worse results for students and higher COVID-19 contagion risk.  
2. Their judgement couldn’t have been more flawed. But that’s just one example. Then you had Critical Race Theory. Last spring when the Florida Board of Education banned the teaching of the principals of Critical Race Theory in schools, the American Federation of Teachers pledged to fight the state and to teach the CRT agenda putting out this statement... Contrary to what Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis says, teaching America’s true history doesn’t teach kids to hate each other—it actually informs them, encourages them to think critically, inspires them to embrace tolerance and allows them to be more engaged stewards of our multiracial, multiethnic society. Teaching an honest account of our country’s past helps our students discern fact from fiction and build the skills to draw their own conclusions. As educators, we are facing the challenge of this complicated issue by developing nuanced professional learning opportunities and sharing vetted lesson plans—like those from the 1619 Project—to help educators tackle the hard conversations around our country’s history and its impact on today and tomorrow. When Ron DeSantis says that critical race theory is ‘based on false history,’ he’s not interested in really engaging in a debate about the past. Subsequently, numerous teachers signed a Zinn Project Pledge to teach CRT in Florida’s schools in violation of state law. But wait, there’s still more because we had this year’s school mask mandate fiasco. Last spring the CDC dropped their school mask guidance for students. Immediately the American Federation of Teachers demanded the CDC reinstitute the recommendation which they did. Then, despite state law mandating parents having the option of opting their students out of mask mandates, 12 school districts, including South Florida’s blatantly violated state law, heeding the call of the teachers’ union instead. This despite numerous studies documented by the National Institutes of Health that all teachers are less effective at teaching and all students are less effective at learning at all educational levels with masks on. That’s... 
3. Two years and three examples of how 78% of Florida’s public-school educators have fought against the best interests of our children and having even been willing to break the law to do it. They’ve lost credibility, and thus in the middle of a culture war in which our children are being sexualized at alarming rates, and at a time in which teenagers in our schools are identifying as being gay at rates that are far higher than any ages of adults, and at rates that are five times higher than studied homosexual behavior. Something’s happening in our culture and in our schools that’s a historical outlier. There aren’t magically multiples more homosexuals in our society – and no one else discussing this issue is discussing this aspect of the issue. It’s clear something’s changed in our society – in our schools recently, which has resulted in adolescents identifying as being homosexual at record rates. Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Legislation is necessary because our educators have lost credibility that they’ll do the right thing by our children. They’ve proven they’re far more interested in their own agendas and that of the national union to which they pay dues. Just like we need to get real about allowing the ever-woke Disney inside our homes to keep our kids company, we need to get real about most of Florida’s public-school teachers. This is why parental choice and parental rights are paramount. We’re fortunate to be in a great state with a great governor who is willing to lead on these issues and fight for our rights.